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youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos (lemmy.world)
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youtube getting more aggressive.. i've got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

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[–] [email protected] 288 points 2 years ago (24 children)

Get Firefox, install uBlock Origin, clear the filter cache, and reload the filter cache.

Worked for me and my dad

It is time to stop the Chrome plauge.

[–] [email protected] 161 points 2 years ago (13 children)

It's currently working, but every few days youtube will tweak something, and sometime later (minutes to hours) there will be an ublock update for it.

Sometimes you have to wait a little longer, but this is the arms race.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some arms races aren't what they appear to be: https://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday-hack/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I might read the article later, but your thesis is right.

This isn't a arms race, it's also convenience race.

Is it more convenient for me to turn off ublock, or go through ublocks menus and update its filters? Do I dislike ads that much? Maybe I do, maybe I don't. But some people will turn off their adblock of choice, even if it technically still works if you update it. Their conversion rate of viewer to ad consumer will (probably) go up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's worth the read. I really only posted it because you have to respect the technical prowess involved. Also it's kind of funny.

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